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and not regular education. forgive me, but i am not as enthusiastic about roland's presentation and presentation of seth andrew as much as you are. it drives up the theory of american education, there is a frenzy around this theory. we began by citing it as our schools and education outcomes have become stagnant. outcomes have been declining. it wasn't always so. including the national assessment of education progress. the reality is that our school system, our public school system, the regular public school system and has been improving the achievement, particularly of minority students at a phenomenal rate over recent times. i know you will be skeptical because they are so convinced of this story. the reality is that, for example, to take the most extreme example, a fourth-grade scores for black students, this is the most extreme example, the average score for black students in math today at elementary schools is higher than the average white scored was 20 years ago. that is a phenomenal improvement. there ha
and not regular education. forgive me, but i am not as enthusiastic about roland's presentation and presentation of seth andrew as much as you are. it drives up the theory of american education, there is a frenzy around this theory. we began by citing it as our schools and education outcomes have become stagnant. outcomes have been declining. it wasn't always so. including the national assessment of education progress. the reality is that our school system, our public school system, the regular...
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so as an educator of 36 years, this is of concern to me. i will be a champion for education. my education plan also calls for money from rich to the top -- raced to the top to go to funding teacher education programs in small colleges like this one that would help college students actually learn what it is to teach in small towns, and am really proud of that as well katie thank you. [applause] we have another question from the student body. this is northwestern jr. what is your question? >> as a huge supporter of the second amendment i am curious what your position on gun control is especially in light of the many shootings that have occurred since the horror, colorado tragedy. two is responsible and what can be done to ensure a safer america with fewer murders? moderator: the question is answered first tonight by christie vilsack. christie: i believe in the second amendment. i come from a family where hunting is very, very important, and i think it is part of our culture to pass down those traditions from one generation to the next. i also think i am the kind of person who w
so as an educator of 36 years, this is of concern to me. i will be a champion for education. my education plan also calls for money from rich to the top -- raced to the top to go to funding teacher education programs in small colleges like this one that would help college students actually learn what it is to teach in small towns, and am really proud of that as well katie thank you. [applause] we have another question from the student body. this is northwestern jr. what is your question?...
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they didn't have to worry about national education policy, national energy policy, you know, terrorism policy. you just go down a whole litany of things that the modern congress which incidentally has consisted of the same number of people as the 1959. so you have more people or the same number of people trying to do so much more than they ever did. villagers of any kind just kind of destroy the institution. but i think that's one reason why the idea of returning to the old fashion -- let me say one final thing about watergate. watergate is a tribute to the upside of politically divided government. that is, richard nixon was run out of town because the democrats controlled congress. if the republicans have controlled congress this would not have happened. one of the things you do get with divided government is greater oversight of the president by the congress so that the current house of representatives is spending all of its time besides voting to repeal obamacare, trying to investigate the obama administration, and this is exactly what would be predicted. so what we have been is sep
they didn't have to worry about national education policy, national energy policy, you know, terrorism policy. you just go down a whole litany of things that the modern congress which incidentally has consisted of the same number of people as the 1959. so you have more people or the same number of people trying to do so much more than they ever did. villagers of any kind just kind of destroy the institution. but i think that's one reason why the idea of returning to the old fashion -- let me...
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and they each one requires more education. and i just think if we're going it i think america is a huge advantage in the world. because the i think the world is going to be divided going forward between high imagination and enabling countries and low imagination enabling country. rethe highest imagination enabling country in the world. if you have spark of an idea you can go to delta in taiwan they'll design it. they'll get you a cheap chinese manufacture. amazon will gift wrap it for christmas. free lancer get the logo. they are commodities except this. that's no country that does better. the problem with this though, the days will ford will move to your job with 25,000 person factory is over. it's 2500 people and a lot of robots and you know the old joke, the modern factory of the future is two employees, a man and the dog. the man is there to feed the dog and the dog there to keep the man away from the machines. generating 12 million nor jobs maybe it's possible only going to be possible if we once again get everyone starti
and they each one requires more education. and i just think if we're going it i think america is a huge advantage in the world. because the i think the world is going to be divided going forward between high imagination and enabling countries and low imagination enabling country. rethe highest imagination enabling country in the world. if you have spark of an idea you can go to delta in taiwan they'll design it. they'll get you a cheap chinese manufacture. amazon will gift wrap it for...
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we need business and education to get a. .. how do know that, why did you do that. at some point they did it because they had always done it that way or they had some sort of rule that wasn't based on any research. and so i sort of went around campaigns some degree skepticism about a lot of practices that were taking place and the way people were spending money, time and resources. as i learned about people starting in academia, these randomized control trials within being adopted by people in the political world. i learned more about the innovations of data and targeting based on, basically revolutionized campaigns in the last decade. this was a major shift, and in addition to all of these new forms of research changing the way campaigns operate is they have this kind of cultural tension between a lot of the old practices and the way, the new, empirical movement. >> more on booktv's afterwards tonight at 10 p.m. eastern and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv. >> now john wohlstetter talks about the threat of nuclear weapons t
we need business and education to get a. .. how do know that, why did you do that. at some point they did it because they had always done it that way or they had some sort of rule that wasn't based on any research. and so i sort of went around campaigns some degree skepticism about a lot of practices that were taking place and the way people were spending money, time and resources. as i learned about people starting in academia, these randomized control trials within being adopted by people in...
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so it was universal primary education, the factory of the universal secondary education and it was universal post secondary education to the extent that we could do that. we have the world's best infrastructure, bandwidth etc. then we had the world's most open and the sentry half century to increase the most energetic and talented around the world to start 40% of the new countries in silicon valley and the best rules for the capitol formation to prevent the recklessness and incentivize risk-taking. and last we had the most government funded research to push the boundaries of science and technology so our best innovators and the entrepreneurs could pluck them and start these companies. if you think about that is a formula for success, and education we now -- well, roughly 30% of high school students drop out of high school. we used to lead the world in college graduates coming out of high school. we no longer do that. on infrastructure, according to the american society of civil engineers we are now $2 trillion in deficit in terms of infrastructure. immigration we have a policy to get a great
so it was universal primary education, the factory of the universal secondary education and it was universal post secondary education to the extent that we could do that. we have the world's best infrastructure, bandwidth etc. then we had the world's most open and the sentry half century to increase the most energetic and talented around the world to start 40% of the new countries in silicon valley and the best rules for the capitol formation to prevent the recklessness and incentivize...
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that racial diversity had education will benefits that are substantial enough to make a compelling interest and compelling interest justifying use of racial preference if necessary to get this but kennedy dissented forcefully on the narrow tailoring requirements. the university failed to show that it matched the principles that the majority laydown. too much difference to the university claims. the principals are briefly that racial preference should not be resorted to until race neutral alternatives have been exhausted to serve interests of racial diversity and racial balancing is absolutely barred and suggest by racial balance seeking -- the racial groups in population at large. and racial preference are not perpetual. we should expect this won't be necessary anymore. that is 28. they are gone but implication of the court's statement was universities will not wait until the last day of the 24 year and just stop but no sign any university i know of has been slowing down and using -- if anything to the contrary. there is internal tension within the greeter opinion that will be worked out to
that racial diversity had education will benefits that are substantial enough to make a compelling interest and compelling interest justifying use of racial preference if necessary to get this but kennedy dissented forcefully on the narrow tailoring requirements. the university failed to show that it matched the principles that the majority laydown. too much difference to the university claims. the principals are briefly that racial preference should not be resorted to until race neutral...